Car Classic 2015: Visions of the Future

Words by Tim Wong

Every year, there’s a pretty low profile car event at Pasadena’s Art Center, College of design. Car Classic. It’s not a typical car show, but rather more of a carefully curated vehicle display of some the most beautiful cars throughout history. This isn’t a custom car show or even a concours event. Attendees at this event aren’t just looking at cool cars, but rather design and innovation in the automotive industry over time. I make an effort to make it out to this event every year because it’s a special event not really seen anywhere else.

1981 DMC Delorean “Back to the Future” Replica. Funny thing about this was that since it was all the rage about the Back to the Future day all week, the Puente Hills mall where the movie was filmed was having this whole fan thing going on there. Since I don’t live in LA and I wasn’t pretending to be the most die hard fan of the movie, I hadn’t planned and making a trip up specifically to see the recreation of the movie scene, but I somehow ended up there anyways after Car Classic. I coincidentally got a similar angle of the movie too. Maybe I’ll make a specific post about it later.